ABSTRACT
The vast bulk of the fairly vast bulk that is Phenomenology of Perception (PhP) is devoted to an elucidation of the various ways in which one’s own body and that of others is disclosed prior to scientific theorizing. However, as is obvious to even the most cursory glance at its pages, one of the most unusual features of this elucidation, unusual at least for most philosophers, is that it is developed through the close examination of case studies in empirical psychology. For readers used to philosophy that is at best ‘science lite’, Merleau-Ponty’s keenness to acknowledge that one should not pursue philosophy of psychology ‘without psychology’ is profoundly refreshing (PhP, 63/73).1
